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Robert R. Mitchell

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Robert was born in 1966, a year filled with news of the Vietnam War, revolutions, riots, coups, the Miranda decision, the civil rights movement, the last public concert of the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix’s artistry in London. He grew up mowing lawns and house-sitting for neighbors and got his first job with an actual paycheck in high school mopping floors in a nursing home with his future wife. After college, he wrote a family history for a prominent Ballard businessman and philanthropist, worked for Starbucks, threw newspapers, delivered milk in a truck painted like a cow and worked for an international telecommunications company. Only Shot At A Good Tombstone is his first novel.

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Only Shot At A Good Tombstone

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“The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid, but all he was thinking about was peaches.
-Only Shot At A Good Tombstone, page 24”
Robert R. Mitchell, Only Shot At A Good Tombstone

“You can call a jackass a thoroughbred but that doesn't make it so.”
attributed to Abraham Lincoln

“The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid, but all he was thinking about was peaches.
-Only Shot At A Good Tombstone, page 24”
Robert R. Mitchell, Only Shot At A Good Tombstone

“Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study their excrement to see what they consumed. On this they base certain conclusions. Their ignorance is uncompromising. Let us rather stand before the unknown, in very humble, quiet observance and wait while it reveals itself.”
Phillip Mann, The Disestablishment of Paradise

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“There I am then back in the saddle, in my numbed heart a prick of misgiving, like one dying of cancer obliged to consult his dentist.”
Samuel Beckett, Molloy

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